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1. S. WILLIAMS.

Stove Grate.

Patented Sept. 13,1859.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIDE.

J. S. WILLIAMS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,462, dated September 13, 1859.

T o all whom #may concern:

Be it known that I, J. S. WILLIAMS, of St. Louis, in the State ofMissouri, have ini vented a new and Improved Construction andArrangement of Stove-Grates; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making part of this specicationzFigure l, being afront elevation of a stove-grate, and a portion of the chimney in whichit is placed; Fig. 2, a vertical section thereof, in the plane indicatedby the line o@ oo, Fig. l; Fig. 3, a similar section thereof, in theplane indicated by the line y y, Fig. l; Fig. 1l, a horizontal sectionthereof, looking upward, in the plane indicated by the line e e, Fig. 2.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My improved stove-grate is so arranged that, while it is placed in anordinary fireplace, it has all the advantages of a stove, in conveyingthe heat, produced on all sides, into the room, without any additionalde-v vices or cost; and this, combined with convenience, and readinessof application, and presenting a handsome appearance.

The stovegrate is placed in the ordinary fire-place C, the size of whichis to be such as to furnish sufficient space in the rear, and at the topand sides of said stove-grate, for a free circulation of air.

rl`he stove-grate A, is composed of a grate B, sides, back, and registersurfaces or plates D, D, extending, sidewise, sufficiently from thestove-grate body, to cover the front of the fire-place in which it isplaced. rIhe register plates D, D, are provided with perforations oropen-work a., o, o., a, (Fig. 1,) made in any desirable or ornamentalshape, so as to allow the air to have a free circulation through thesame. Register valves I-I, I, I, cover these perforated surfaces, bothat the top and sides, except near the bottom, where they are wanting, inorder to allow the admission of cold air at all times. They may beopened and closed by handles L, z', z', extending through said registerplates D, D, or by any other suitable means.

The fire-place is separated from the flue above, by a horizontalfire-board o, shown most clearly in Fig. 4, which covers the throat ofthe chimney, and thereby prevents the heated air around the stove-grate,from iowing up through the flue and escaping. It also prevents the sootin the chimney from falling into the fire-place. The sinoke-pipe (Z,passes from the stove-grate, through this iireboard, into the flue. Incases where it is desirable to heat an apartment above, a hot-air pipeGr, is employed, extending from the fire-place up, through the flue ofthe chimney, and opening into the apartment above. This pipe is providedwith a valve or damper g, at the lower end, having a suitable handle f,by which it is opened or closed at pleasure. By this arrangement, allsuperabundant heat may be utilized in heating the upper apartment, orapartments, in which a suitable register may also be provided, in theusual manner for furnaces.

The whole being thus arranged, the heat given out on all sides of thestove-grate, is secured, by conveying it out through the register platesinto the room, instead of allowing it to escape up the chimney; and myimproved arrangement dispenses with the use or necessity of additionalbacks and fixtures, by simply regulating the valves of the registerplates so as to allow a free passage of air. the hot-air pipe G, anddamper g, I am enabled to employ a portion of the heat for heating roomsabove, thus deriving, to a certain extent, the advantages to be gainedby a furnace.

I do not claim the employment of a stove or grate in any manner, orconnection, except when simply arranged in an ordinary fire-place, sothat the fire-place itself shall act as the hotair chamber for holdingand delivering the air heated by the back and sides of the grate,thereby dispensing with all complication of construction, and alladditional devices; therefore Vhat I claim as my invention and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the stove-grate A, having register plates D, D, andvalves II, I, I, which admit unheated air from the room, at all times,through the bottoms of said plates, but control the flow of heated Andat the same time, by means of4 air into the room, as described, With thearrangement of stove-grates, I hereunto set Uf ordinary fire-place C,when the latter is my hand this 24th day of January, 1859. separatedfrom the flue above by asimple fire-board b, in the manner anti for thepurs Jv S' WILLIAMS 5 poses hei-ein specified. Witnesses:

In Witness that the above is a, true speoi- R. HOLMES7 41 ication of myimproved Construction und J. B. TURNER.

